''Aulotrachichthys heptalepis'', also known as the Hawaiian luminous roughy, is a

slimehead Slimeheads, also known as roughies and redfish, are mostly small, exceptionally long-lived, deep-sea beryciform fish constituting the family Trachichthyidae (derived from the Greek ''trachys'' – "rough" and ''ichthys'' – "fish"). Found in tem ...

fish found in the

Hawaiian Islands The Hawaiian Islands ( haw, Nā Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kur ...

south of Niihau, the westernmost island. It has a depth range of . They reach a maximum total length of about . It was first described in 1984 after 33 individuals were caught by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service in a series of cruises of the

.Gon O. 1984. Paratrachichthys heptalepis, a new roughie (Pisces, Trachichthyidae) from the Hawaiian Islands. Pac Sci 293-299. http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/679

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* heptalepis Fish described in 1984 Fish of Hawaii Fish of the Pacific Ocean {{Beryciformes-stub